Braves 5, Reds 0: .Ray Keating pitched nine shutout innings to complete a double-header whitewash of the League leaders at Braves Field and cap a surprising series in which the Braves beat Cincinnati in four straight contests. The game was scoreless for three innings before Boston began to chip away at Reds starter Hod Eller (10-6). Single runs in each of the next five Brave at-bats, three of those driven home by the hot bat of Joe Riggert (including his fifth home run of the season), pushed Boston into the lead and gradually pulled them away from the visitors. Meanwhile, the suddenly-anemic Reds batting attack was found without answers yet again; they put two men on in the 1st and again in the 7th, but failed to dent the scoreboard on either occasion as Keating (3-2) made the big pitch on the very few occasions where Cincinnati demanded it of him. The Niagara University product allowed just two hits over the final seven innings and was in complete command the entire way, as the Reds finished the twinbill with an aggregate batting line of .167/.183/.231 that included an 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. Riggert's recent hot stretch has seen him wallop the ball at a .375 clip with two triples, three homers and eight RBI over his last nine games. [box]
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| Ray Keating finished the long scoreless afternoon in Boston for the Reds |
Braves 4, Reds 0: In the opener of the doubleheader, it was Art Nehf - for the second time in four days - taking his turn shutting down the Cincinnati offense, twirling a four-hit beauty that saw him face just four batters over the minimum. Dutch Ruether (7-6) matched him toe-to-toe for five innings, but couldn't keep pace in the 6th when spotty control (two walks) and support (two-out error by Jake Daubert) contributed to a three-run Boston inning which would provide all the backing needed by Boston's diminutive left-hander. Nehf (8-9) retired twelve of the first thirteen Reds and was completely unbothered by their attempts to connect with the baseball other than a two-on, one-out jam in the 8th inning which ended suddenly when Walter Holke fielded Ruether's line drive to first and then beat slow-footed catcher Bill Rariden back to the first-base bag for the double play. Tony Boeckel (single, triple) and Rabbit Maranville (two singles, two RBI) keyed the Boston offense. [box]
Pirates 2, Robins 1: A snappy pitchers' duel in Brooklyn was decided when Pittsburgh starter Hal Carlson contributed a key double in the 5th inning. The Robins took the lead in the 3rd when Ernie Krueger walked, moved to second on a ground out, and scored when Jimmy Johnston singled to right field with two outs. It was still a 1-0 game when the Robins came to bat in the 5th; Walter Schmidt singled with one away, and then Carlson lined a Jeff Pfeffer (9-7) pitch down the right-field line for two bases and Schmidt scampered home with the tying run. The Pirate hurler moved to third base on a fielding error by Ivy Olson and then tallied the lead run on Zeb Terry's base hit and, from that point forward, there was no coming back for Brooklyn. Carlson (5-2) set down the final sixteen Robins in succession, twelve of them on ground balls, to complete a masterful two-hit performance. George Cutshaw was the only man in either squad to record more than one safe hit on the afternoon. [box]
Cardinals 10, Giants 4: Rogers Hornsby tortured New York pitching for four hits, including his fifth homer of the year, and Doc Lavan knocked in four runs as St. Louis beat up on the Giants in Manhattan. The visitors took the game away from New York early, scoring five times in the 2nd inning - Hornsby led off with a four-bagger to deep left field and his teammates followed with five more base hits, a Hal Chase error providing the final score of the uprising. Any doubts were erased completely in the 5th when the Cards scored four more times, this time with Lavan emptying the bases his first home run of the campaign, a three-run drive to straightaway center field. Jakie May (5-6) cruised to the finish line from there, showing uncharacteristically good control (just two walks) while whiffing a half-dozen Giants along the way. George Burns had three hits and three RBI as the lone bright spot for the New Yorkers. [box]
Phillies 7, Cubs 3: .Philadelphia broke a three-game losing streak behind a solid mound performance from Brad Hogg and a big day at the bat from George Whitted. The afternoon did not begin auspiciously for Hogg as Chicago rapped him around for three hits and two runs in the 1st inning, Charlie Pick's two-run single doing the final damage, and it looked like another long day for the Phils was in the offing. But Hogg steadied the ship by retiring eight in a row after Pick's hit and, even after Max Flack's solo home run (5) in the 5th, kept Philadelphia close enough to have a chance. And, down 3-1 when they came to the plate in the 6th (Whitted's homer in the 5th accounting for their one run), they took that chance - three of the first four men hit safely off of Paul Carter (1-5), the third of those hits a two-run triple by Bert Adams that tied the game. Speed Martin's entrance onto the game didn't slow down the Phillies any, as a key Charlie Hollocher bobble and two more hits including a two-run single from "Possum" produced a six-run inning and a four-run lead. Of course, with Philadelphia's pitching no lead was safe at the Baker Bowl, but Hogg (3-6) guttted out seven innings and George Smith came on to throw two hitless frames of relief to secure the win for the home squad. Whitted finished the day reaching base in all four of his trips to the dish, scoring once and driving home three. Adams, despite the big three-base hits, accounted for all three of the Phillie strikeouts. [box]
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